Weird Europe
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Weird Europe: A Guide to Bizarre, Macabre, and Just Plain Weird Sights (1999) is a travel guide to Europe by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus.
From the publisher:
Welcome to Weird Europe...where truth is stranger than fiction.
Thrill-seekers, students of the bizarre, travelers searching for relief from the usual tourist attractions-rejoice! At last, here is a guidebook to Europe's dark side. From strange natural wonders to the handiwork of mad scientists, dreamers, and zealots, Europe harbors hundreds of fascinating-and occasionally gruesome-suprises.
In these pages, you'll discover:
- Two-headed animals
- Erotic museums
- Creepy catacombs
- A cathedral made of salt
- A railroad operated by children
- The Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum
- An all-ice hotel
- Ancient pagan rituals
- Mines
- Sewer tours
- A museum of espionage
- UFO landing sites
- Pictures drawn by the dead
- A frog museum
- Pancake races
- Oddball art
- Underground cities
- Giants, freaks, and Siamese twins
- The Temple of Echoes
Covering twenty-five countries, with complete directions, opening hours, and admission prices for nearly a thousand wild attractions, Weird Europe is an indispensable guide to a world that you never knew existed. Once you enter Weird Europe, there's no turning back.
Notes
The book does not mention explicit corbels.
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